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Paperback. Whether in imagination or practice, the promise of networked digital technology has great appeal. With the expansion of Internet access worldwide it seemed that the economic and political playing field would be leveled. Any user across the world would be able to share his or her own voice. Series: Digital Futures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509506187
- ISBN
- 9781509506187
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Condition: New
€ 22.26
€ 22.26
Hardback. Whether in imagination or practice, the promise of networked digital technology has great appeal. With the expansion of Internet access worldwide it seemed that the economic and political playing field would be leveled. Any user across the world would be able to share his or her own voice. Series: Digital Futures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509506170
- ISBN
- 9781509506170
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 231 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330. Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 231 pages, 1 map. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight: 330.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 231
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247970
- ISBN
- 9780520247970
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.52
€ 40.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Luciak cautions that while active measures to advance the political role of women have strengthened formal gender equality, only the joint efforts of both sexes can lead to a successful transformation of society based on democratic governance and substantive gender equality. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 1KLCN; 1KLCS; JFSJ1; JPA; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801867804
- ISBN
- 9780801867804
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Condition: New
€ 46.16
€ 46.16
Paperback. Translator(s): Kutner, Richard. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253026910
- ISBN
- 9780253026910
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.99
€ 21.99
€ 20.99
Hardback. Translator(s): Kutner, Richard. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253026804
- ISBN
- 9780253026804
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Condition: New
€ 52.85
€ 52.85
Paperback. Editor(s): Dickel, Simon. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; AB; DSBH; JFCA; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837628937
- ISBN
- 9783837628937
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.31
€ 51.99
€ 37.31
Paperback. Describes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously - not so that it can hand the West its legitimation, but so that it can seek to make sense of the grand narratives in which it is embroiled. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141015071
- ISBN
- 9780141015071
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Focusing on the history and theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of case studies that draw on artistic and cultural community work, After urban regeneration engages with debates on how urban policy has changed and continues to change following the financial crash of 2008 Editor(s): O'Brien, Dave; Matthews, Peter. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; RGC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447324164
- ISBN
- 9781447324164
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 36.59
€ 37.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Zoe H. Wool explores how the most severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rehabilitating at Walter Reed Medical Center-whether recovering from losing a limb or sustaining a traumatic brain injury-struggle to build some kind of ordinary life in a situation that is anything but ordinary. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 264 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360032
- ISBN
- 9780822360032
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. This work compares the coverage of Nixon in the three national newsweeklies , "Newsweek", "Time", and the "US News and World Report", from his resignation from the presidency in August 1974 until his funeral in April 1994. Num Pages: 112 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFD; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761818557
- ISBN
- 9780761818557
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Condition: New
€ 116.12
€ 116.12
Paperback. Explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively deteriorating 'American work ethic', and the class, race, sexual and gender biases at the root of the policy and debates. This title argues that activists could make great strides towards achieving social justice, even in the reactionary climate. Num Pages: 244 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814797556
- ISBN
- 9780814797556
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. What comes after white becomes a minority in the United States. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 268 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814735435
- ISBN
- 9780814735435
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolino, Vera Frenkel, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman to explore trauma and bereavement, fatal illness, Holocaust experience, migration, exile and the encounter with political horror and atrocity. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 384 pages, 91 black & white halftones, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; JFFK; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087981
- ISBN
- 9780719087981
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.82
€ 32.99
€ 31.82
Paperback. Comfort, cake and courting: the tea ceremony in the golden age of tea Num Pages: 96 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 235 x 9. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445650319
- ISBN
- 9781445650319
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.91
€ 21.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318. Large format paperback.Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Wallflower Press London
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KEX0211873
- ISBN
- 9781903364246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Wallflower Press London
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KLN0013680
- ISBN
- 9781903364246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743501
- ISBN
- 9780804743501
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Series: Dissident Feminisms. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSK2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252040030
- ISBN
- 9780252040030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. Series: Dissident Feminisms. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSK2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 272 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081507
- ISBN
- 9780252081507
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good Editor(s): Kirkland, Anna Rutherford; Metzl, Jonathan M. Series: Biopolitics. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814795934
- ISBN
- 9780814795934
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.91
€ 30.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. Argues that health is a concept, a norm, and a set of bodily practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible by the assumption that it is a monolithic, universal good Editor(s): Metzl, Jonathan M.; Kirkland, Anna. Series: Biopolitics. Num Pages: 226 pages, Illustrations 1 map. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814795927
- ISBN
- 9780814795927
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Condition: New
€ 85.77
€ 85.77
Hardback. One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBK; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745690698
- ISBN
- 9780745690698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBK; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745690704
- ISBN
- 9780745690704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.53
€ 23.53